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About six weeks ago, I flagged the (in my view, alarming) filing by the government of a notice of appeal to the D.C. Circuit in the Guantanamo MOU/continuing access-to-counsel litigation.
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Earlier this week, I posted a short note about the National Intelligence Council and its projection of alternate futures for the year 2030. While I would never say the work was derivative :-), I should ...
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I may be exiled from the blog for saying this, but the New York Times has an excellent analysis of the recently concluded WCIT treaty meeting in Dubai in today's paper. It begins:
At the global treaty c...
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Earlier today, while looking for any excuse to avoid grading while working very hard on grading the exams for my National Security Law class, I noticed several law-oriented blogs posting links to Gizoogl...
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Here is the White House's supplemental consolidated report regarding the deployment of U.S. armed forces. The report is addressed to the Speaker of the House, and was---in the President's words---"prepa...
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Today, lawyers for Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, and other federal officials sued in their individual capacities, filed a motion to dismiss in the case of Al-Aulaqi v.
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According to a notation on the Supreme Court's docke
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It’s Friday, folks---but there’s a fair bit going on.
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The D.C. Circuit has handed down its latest Guantanamo habeas case, Khairkhwa v. Obama. The brief, unanimous opinion by Senior Judge A. Raymond Randolph for himself and Judges Judith Rogers and Merrick G...
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As you may have read by now (reports from the New York Times and Washington Post are pretty good), that the WCIT conference has ended in disarray. The United States and a number of other Western countr...
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Well, we know it’s long---more than 6,000 pages long. We know it’s critical. And we know it was approved on a 9-to-6 vote. Here’s the statement by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who chairs the Senate Select Comm...
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From the Tumblr site, IRCats ("International Relations as Depicted By Cats"). . .
h/t Stephanie Dahle
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The Wall Street Journal has an article today, titled “U.S. Terrorism Agency to Tap a Vast Database of Citizens.” It reports:
The rules now allow the little-known National Counterterrorism Center to exam...
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Let’s begin with Pfc. Bradley Manning, alleged Wikileaker and allegedly subjected to unacceptably harsh treatment. Josh Gerstein of Politico reports that Manning’s attorney has argued that his client’s t...
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The Times has an op-ed today on the WCIT conference in Dubai. Who knows, maybe this is one Ben will agree with.
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The European Court of Human Rights ("ECHR") today held that Macedonia had violated the rights of Khaled El-Masri. In 2003 El-Masri, a German national, was confused for a similarly-named terrorism suspe...
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Yesterday, plaintiffs in Hedges v.
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The American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security has released audio recordings of its recent conference in Washington.
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Daveed Gartenstein-Ross of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies has a chapter in this new book, entitled "The Future of Preventive Detention Under International Law" (see pp. 257-266). The larger bo...
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North Korea’s at it again: it’s launched a rocket, says the New York Times. So uncreative.